We have more and more tools to reach out across the world, but it’s still hard to reach out to your entire neighborhood. How can we better design our public spaces so neighbors can collectively communicate, self-organize, and become effective agents in their communities? Two forms of communication, outdoor flyers and online forums, allow individuals to reach out to a large population in public space. By documenting these messages in three NYC neighborhoods – the Lower East Side, Chinatown, and Cobble Hill – I developed a typology for how these forums are currently used and conducted low-fi experiments with flyers that led to the lovely f-bomb. Select pages from the condensed visual version of the 2007 research below.
Thesis advisor: Robert Beauregard, Thesis reader: Sarah Williams
